7 Mar 2019

Malmstrom celebrates Women's History Month, all-female field mission

Every month of March, Air Force Global Strike Command recognizes Women’s History Month by coordinating all-female alert teams to dispatch to the missile field.This year, all three intercontinental ballistic missile wings, as well as the 341st Maintenance Group, are posting females to the field on International Women’s Day.“We’re sending out

8 Sep 2017

‘Defender Avenger,’ the ‘Fearless’ and Global Strike’s tests of August

On Aug. 2, 2017, Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base, just off of California’s central coast. Although the test was planned more than three years in advance, the public forum was abuzz, with many calling the launch a response to Pyongyang’s aggressive rhetoric. Twenty days later, a B-2 Spirit — America’s only stealth bomber — dropped an unarmed B61 nuclear gravity bomb on a small target in the Nevada desert. Hardly anyone noticed.

2 Feb 2017

PRAP clinic; taking care of business

The 341st Medical Operations Squadron personnel reliability assurance program clinic, which handles medical care for Airmen required to comply with the personnel reliability program, has recently undergone changes to better provide the critical care field-deployable Airmen need.The mission of the PRAP clinic is to ensure nuclear field Airmen are